# Zentavo VC

> Zentavo VC is a VC fund in Mumbai backing Software and Information Technology. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.zentavovc.com

Zentavo VC is a VC fund in Mumbai focused on Software and Information Technology. From Seed to Series A, Zentavo VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that makes investments in technology firms, AI/ML, and generative AI.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $640k–$35M |
| Series A | $440k–$50M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $400k–$740k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 45% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 15% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 40% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 7 | 35% |
| Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Series E | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 65% |
| Denmark | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Navro | Navro provides payment and banking infrastructure for software companies. The platform offers tools for businesses to gain real-time insights into payments, generate reports, and efficiently track money movements, making international transactions straightforward. Navro facilitates brands' payment operations on a global scale, effectivelyremoving inefficiencies associated with international payments. | $440K | Series A | Dec 23, 2025 |  |
| Harness | Harness is a software delivery platform that provides tools for automating code integration, testing, deployment, and verification across the software development lifecycle. It offers continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, GitOps support, and AI-driven features that assist in generating and troubleshooting workflows withoutmanual scripting. The platform includes modules for managing feature flags, infrastructure as code, artifact registries, and options for automating security and cloud cost controls. Harness also supplies an open-source edition that enables teams to configure development environments and manage end-to-end delivery processes from a unified interface. Its services aim to streamline release practices, reduce manual effort, and bring coherence to complex software delivery operations. | $200M | Series E | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Rive | Rive is transforming the way designers and developers collaborate by allowing them to create animated interactive experiences that run faster, store smaller, and use less memory than existing design solutions. This new workflow allows designers and developers to concentrate on what they do best, eliminating the need for a complex handoff. Graphicssuch as animated UI, characters, heads-up displays, hero moments, buttons, icons, and emojis can be iterated on freely by creative teams. Rive saves businesses time and engineering resources by enabling designers to create interactive content from concept to production. | $453K | Series A | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Grain | Grain is the easiest meeting insights tool to help you understand and communicate the needs of your customers. Anybody in a customer-focused role can use Grain to record, transcribe, and clip moments from research interviews, sales calls, and customer meetings. You can capture and share insights from customer meetings like never before. No moremanual notes, full meeting recordings or sales intelligence tools. | $540K | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Mem | The world's first self-organizing workspace. | $650K | Series A | Nov 11, 2025 |  |
| Endgame | Endgame is transforming enterprise sales by turning every seller into a trusted advisor. In a world where 88% of buyers only purchase from those they trust, yet 80% of sales meetings fail due to poor preparation—we believe there's a better way.We've created the ultimate sales team amplifier by integrating your GTM strategy with first-and third-party data sources: emails, calls, CRM, LinkedIn, news, and financial reports. The result? An intelligent, actionable source of truth for every account and person in your book of business, instantly at your fingertips.With Endgame, your team will never walk into a meeting unprepared again. Endgame isn't just helping your sellers see around corners; we're redefining what it means to stand out in today's market. | $460K | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 24, 2025 |  |
| Qdrant | Qdrant develops vector databases and search technology designed to support artificial intelligence applications that require similarity search, recommendation, and semantic retrieval capabilities. The company’s core offering is a vector-oriented database that stores high-dimensional numeric representations of data, enabling efficient search andretrieval operations based on similarity rather than exact matches. This allows applications such as semantic search, content recommendation, and clustering to operate on large data sets of text, images, and other unstructured content. The database supports real‑time indexing and querying of vectors generated by machine learning models, enabling developers to integrate AI‑driven search and recommendation features into applications. Its APIs allow software systems to submit vectors representing user queries or content items and receive the most similar vectors based on nearest-neighbor search algorithms. This capability is commonly used to surface semantically relevant search results or related content recommendations in applications involving natural language processing, image similarity, and personalization systems. | $480K | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Contra | Contra is a networking platform that gives users the freedom and opportunity to work independently.It provides flexible work opportunities from people through an exclusive community and referral network by showcasing work portfolios that enable freelancers and other independent professionals to earn a living on their own terms.The SanFrancisco, California-based company was established in 2019 by Ben Huffman and Gajus Kuizinas. | $740K | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 04, 2025 |  |
| Descope | Descope enables any developer to create secure, frictionless authentication and user journeys for any application. It intends to make customer identity a business enabler. | $35M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Gusto | Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resources, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuterbenefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking, and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado. |  | Series A | Jul 07, 2025 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Unusual Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unusual-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cerca Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cerca-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dell Technologies Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dell-technologies-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Zentavo VC invest in?

Zentavo VC invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Zentavo VC's check size?

Zentavo VC typically joins rounds of $640k–$35M at Seed, $440k–$50M at Series A and $400k–$740k at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Zentavo VC participates in.

### When did Zentavo VC last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Zentavo VC closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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